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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
July, 1913 
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homes I ever heard of had a man pushing 
a lawn mower somewhere in the back¬ 
ground—” 
There were a good many “ropes” which 
the Spence family had not learned about 
suburban life. Compared to an apart¬ 
ment and the noise of the city, a “detached 
house,” with porches and lawns all around, 
had sounded like the millenium. But 
Spence became increasingly conscious as 
the weeks sped by that he had not bet¬ 
tered his mental condition by much, or the 
physical health of his children to any great 
extent by the move. To be sure, there 
were porches, and they could sit out on 
them in the evening. But the distance to 
the next porch was not so great but that 
a cigarette could be flipped from one to 
the other, and conversation had to be car¬ 
ried on in a very low tone if it was not to 
become neighborhood gossip. Privacy was 
hard to secure. Windows in the walls of 
houses on either side looked into the win¬ 
dows of his own — he had had an exasper¬ 
ating time one morning pinning a towel 
across a bathroom window from which a 
shade had slipped, in order to take his 
bath, and he caught the 8.29 that time in¬ 
stead of the 8.07. 
The healthy work about “the place” 
which has appealed to him in town no 
longer looked attractive — indeed, he found 
that gardening in shirt sleeves before 
breakfast in a “garden” two feet by ten 
was thought to be as peculiar an eccen¬ 
tricity as cutting his own lawn. The 
suburban standards of living he found 
fully as high and as exacting as those in 
town, and gradually came to the conclusion 
that the added expense of taxes, heat and 
repairs was not being paid for by the ad¬ 
vantages which had seemed so plain when 
viewed from an apartment window, and 
which were so hard to find now that he 
was actually commuting. 
Gradually, too, Mr. Spence became 
aware of a similar dissatisfaction among 
many of his neighbors. There were al¬ 
ways a certain number of houses for sale, 
always some for rent. Willisport was pop¬ 
ular, expensive, and to a certain degree ex¬ 
clusive, but it was not of the type of suburb 
for a man of small income with a growing 
family, and Spence was not the only man 
to find it out. 
“Look at those chaps in the cars,” he 
said one morning to his wife as he was 
bolting his breakfast. 
Mrs. Spence looked. Past the window 
went a steady procession of motor cars of 
all sizes, shapes and kinds. 
“That’s a luxury for you!” continued 
Mr. Spence. “Roll down to the station in 
a car—have the car waiting for you when 
you come home. I hate a car. It’s so con¬ 
foundedly undemocratic. I suppose they 
make mints of money, those young pluto¬ 
crats. But it certainly does save them get¬ 
ting an early breakfast. There is that 
Walker chap—he lives a mile and a half 
out from here and he told me yesterday 
he starts for the train at 7.50—same time 
I do!” 
It was until Mr. Spence had spent a 
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